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Borodin: Prince Igor (artists and orchestra of the Bolshoi State Theater, U.S.S.R.; Asch, 10 sides). A top-drawer company, featuring communal teamwork instead of star soloists, distinguishes this streamlined Moscow recording of a pre-Soviet opera. Well recorded on unbreakable vynalite. Performance: good...
...biggest record seller, was waiting only to see how the first Victor album (Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks) sells before coming out with its own unbreakable product for home use. Already on the market was the more expensive ($2.50 a record) vinyl album, Prince Igor, put out by the six-year-old Asch Recording Studios. And manufacturers who never gave records a thought before were ready to move into Victor's bailiwick...
Stravinsky: Scenes de Ballet (Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Much more exciting in concert version than in Billy Rose's The Seven Lively Arts, for which it was commissioned. Performance and recording: excellent...
Typical numbers were the Tchaikovsky Romance, Vassilenko Oriental Dance, Borodin Chorus from Prince Igor, Liadov Russian Folk Songs and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee (with Ivanov playing the part of the Queen Bee). Liadov's simple Russian songs were melancholy and lovely even on these unsimple Russian machines...
Amidst the happy tohu-bohu of the liberated Parisians, French musical culture began to be heard from. Most of the musicians, French and foreign, who had made Paris a prewar center of musical fashion had escaped into exile. Among those still in the U.S. were Composers Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu, Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Piano Teacher Isidor Philipp...